August 17, 1901

Purchase To Read More

Digital Issue ?Read or download this issue’s articles online. *A printed copy of this issue is not included. $7.99

Print + Digital All Access Subscription ?Read or download this issue’s articles online. Plus, subscribe to get Print, Online and Tablet access to the next 12 new issues to be released as well as Online access to archives back to 1845. $99.00

Features

Humidity and Heating Systems

Big Ships and Deep Waterways

Mishap to the Santos-Dumont Airship

The Proposed History of the Patent Office

Science Notes

Water-Tube vs. Fire-Tube Boilers for Naval use

In the Terminal Station at Buffalo

By Arthur B. Weeks

Relative Speed Indicator

Burning the Sierra Madres

By Charles F. Holder

East Indians in the Island of Trinidad

Railroad Track Nut-Lock

The White Star Liner "Celtic"

The Erection of the Gokteik Bridge

By Day Allen Willey

Self-Propelling Fire Engines

By Waldon Fawcett

Yale's Large Dinosaur

Sir Norman Lockyer on Sun Spots

Departments

Departments

Correspondence - August 17, 1901

Recently Patented Inventions - August 17, 1901

Business and Personal Wants

Index of Inventions - August 17, 1901

New Books, Etc - August 17, 1901

Notes and Queries - August 17, 1901

Patents - August 17, 1901

Purchase To Read More

Digital Issue ?Read or download this issue’s articles online. *A printed copy of this issue is not included. $7.99

Print + Digital All Access Subscription ?Read or download this issue’s articles online. Plus, subscribe to get Print, Online and Tablet access to the next 12 new issues to be released as well as Online access to archives back to 1845. $99.00

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www.springernature.com/us). Scientific American maintains a strict policy of editorial independence in reporting developments in science to our readers.